Animals Chewing Wood Siding

Damage to lower areas only could be rats but probably not.

Animals chewing wood siding.

Follow these tips to keep the squirrel from chewing on your house and making it their home too. Their front teeth never quit growing. They need to file their teeth down. Treat your wood deck with a chemical spray designed especially for squirrels.

The way to keep squirrels from chewing my wood deck. Here are pictures of beaver or porcupine damage on a tree and a deck damaged by chewing squirrels. Holes occur over time when seals crack around plumbing fixtures on your siding allowing mice entrance into your home. The only place the damage is being done is on the south or west side of the structure an out building.

How high up is the damage. Brush polybutene onto siding railings downspouts and other areas where chewing is found to discourage squirrels from climbing. Apply squirrel taste. By sealing gaps in your walls and siding you can successfully secure your home from outdoor pests.

Polybutene is extremely sticky and can be messy to apply. Inexpensive and simple to do sealing your siding only requires a little time to locate the cracks. In the yard these same animals will target trees wood furniture fences decks and as you know home siding. Liquid and spray repellents.

It looks like it s being chewed. I would guess squirrels. While squirrels are free to roam and find plenty of natural materials to chew on or eat during their daily rounds they ll sometimes chew on. You want to do whatever you can to prevent them from chewing on your house and definitely do not want to allow them to get inside.

You re most likely to hear squirrels first a rustling in the ceiling or the sound of grinding as they gnaw away at some wood. Squirrels like to chew on your wood siding because their teeth are constantly growing. The attached pictures give you a pretty good idea what it looks like. If you have easy access for a squirrel to get to your wood siding then he will find it to be the perfect place to trim down his teeth.

With that clue it s time look for droppings in the attic damage outside that indicates an entry point wood chips in unexpected places unexpected water damage on a wall or ceiling a dead animal smell. If they didn t gnaw to wear them down the. The fascia is cypress and the shingles are cedar. The house which has the same siding.

However when they are gnawing on your wood deck they might not be so cute anymore. They will chew on everything from lead roof flanges attic vents to wood shutters and siding. It started with just the corner of a fascia board and now has appeared in a bunch of other places.